When many of us were children, we are taught to love everyone, to share, and to assume that everyone will “get a trophy” for their efforts in their fragile, young lives… But as we grow up, we LEARN. We come to know better–and this wisdom comes for women in the form of a secret that […]

In a lab in South Minneapolis, there’s a room that’s 99.99% sound proof. It holds the Guinness World’s Record for being the quietest place on earth. It’s got 3-foot thick fiberglass acoustic wedges, double walls of insulated steel and concrete that’s over a foot thick. NASA rents out the room to train astronauts. Whirlpool used […]

We were sitting on a picnic bench, looking out on the Red River with our mini Australian shepherd’s leash in hand. We loved going out on walks by the Clyde Fant parkway—a path almost 13 miles long, filled with cross country runners and sickeningly-skinny college students from Centenary College training for their first marathons. We […]

When I left my church of 4,000 members as an Executive Pastor to receive my first call as Pastor of my own congregation, I knew that I needed to do everything I could to be as effective as possible. Whether I was comfortable with it or not, one if the things I knew I just […]

When we are traveling somewhere new, the car is seldom a happy place. My husband and I are both alpha direction finders and givers–and of course, well…my directions and MY way are always right! (odd that he has the audacity to this the same thing!) We will duke it out, and make our case, going […]